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Bug 6253 - <input> bookkeeping aren't consistent
Summary: <input> bookkeeping aren't consistent
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2008-11-27 22:26 UTC by Simon Pieters
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:00 UTC (History)
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Description Simon Pieters 2008-11-27 22:26:49 UTC 
The <input> bookkeeping details aren't scraping friendly in that they aren't consistent. Use-case: http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=339 (It might be easier to scrape the summary table but I figure it's better to scrape the normative material...)
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2008-11-27 22:56:19 UTC 
They're _supposed_ to be consistent, in what way aren't they?
Comment 2 Simon Pieters 2008-11-27 23:25:29 UTC 
I was looking at the first paragraph, where sometimes it was enumerating the allowed attributes, sometimes talking about the value, and sometimes about banned attributes. I didn't realize that there wouldn't be a paragraph at all when there are no allowed common attributes or nothing to say about value...

Sorry for the noise.